Azmi Bishara on hunger strike
Press Release, Al-Oufok
July 5th, 2004 -- In an appeal to Arab, Israeli, and World public opinion against the "Apartheid" system that is being constructed in Palestine, and in a call for a mobilization to stop the construction of the Israeli Separation Wall, MK Azmi Bishara will hold a vigil and an open hunger strike near the wall against the crime of dividing members of the same people from each other in Jerusalem, Abu Dis, ar-Ram, and the northwestern villages of Jerusalem. [MORE]
Israel to defy court ruling on barrier
Staff, AlJazeera.net
July 3rd, 2004 -- Israel says it would not accept next week's World Court ruling on its West Bank barrier. With the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, due to deliver its judgment on the legality of the barrier on 9 July, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on Friday said external involvement was unacceptable.
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Israeli high court demands radical re-routing of West Bank barrier
Donald Macintyre, Independant UK
July 1st, 2004 -- To describe the unsmiling farmers sitting soberly round the big table in the first floor chamber of the offices of the local majlis - the village council - as celebratory would be a wild overstatement. [MORE]
Israeli barrier 'must be re-routed'
Staff, Gulf Daily
July 1st, 2004 -- Siding with the Palestinians, Israel's Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Israeli government to re-route a key section of the West Bank separation barrier near Jerusalem because it causes too much Palestinian suffering.The precedent-setting decision - the first major legal ruling on the barrier - cracked a cornerstone of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to "disengage" from the Palestinians by 2005. [MORE]
Israeli court orders changes in barrier
Dan Ephron, Boston Globe
July 1st, 2004 -- Israel's High Court of Justice, in a landmark ruling, ordered military authorities yesterday to reroute small sections of the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank because the current path creates hardships for thousands of Palestinians, "violating their rights under humanitarian and international law." [MORE]
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